Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: James Pye <lists(at)jwp(dot)name>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-09 18:31:02
Message-ID: 5E030568-FC05-4B79-BDF8-6CBF0F882DC0@jwp.name
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On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:48 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> I'd like to see pseudo-types like ANYNUMERIC, and allow it to take an
> array decorator, which would really help for math-ish functions. Not
> sure where that fits in this discussion.

Perhaps typcategory could be leveraged here?

..Tho, if I understand the general direction, I think it would be
along the lines of type classes/interfaces..

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